Welcome Home Mate
Chapter 62

LEX

We didn't stay too long in the office.

The conversation stayed the same, and even a few apologies were made. Tim and my father shook hands before we left.

We needed to ensure everyone was prepared, and all the pack members who couldn't fight were safe within the pack house.

The pack was busy as everyone was making sure everything was ready. I was helping Alpha Dean, my father, and Luna Stephanie. I knew we had a bunker but never thought of it being able to hold people in it. My father had shown us where it would be safe for the members who couldn't look after themselves.

Luna Stephanie ensured all elderly, pregnant she-wolves and children were in a bunker at the back of the pack house.

Luna Stephanie k!ssed Alpha Dean as she was the last member to go in.

Once the door was closed, he walked over to me and looked pissed. "We need to make sure we kill Trevor," he muttered. "Either you or I will; he needs to be stopped." "I plan to," I snarled.

Whenever an image of Alpha Trevor entered my head, Blaze and I would get angry. We needed to get him, but dead or alive all depended on if Roxie was with him. Part of me wished she was, so I knew she was okay. But the other part didn't; I didn't want to see her in the state she was in the photograph. I couldn't handle it. "We will get her back," growled Blaze. "I will kill every single wolf that is out there."

I knew he would.

I looked at Alpha Dean and was about to say something, but a mind link came through from Jason. "They are here," he growled out in my head.

"We need to move," I said as I turned to walk away. "They are here."

I started to move quickly through the pack house.

All pack members were getting into positions.

As I got to the front door, I spotted Jason standing with Keith, Tim, and Sofia. They were all looking ahead.

As I approached, the stench of rotten eggs wafted toward me, making me want to gag.

Blaze was up on all paws, growling. "I want them all," he roared. "LET ME OUT."

I ignored him, stopped next to Jason, and glanced at my friend.

"I want them dead," he growled, not looking at me. "He took my sister, Lex. I want her back."

Jason turned his head and looked at me. He was holding so much, but everything was heightened due to what was happening.

"I wasn't the best brother back in the day," he muttered as he stared at me. "Both of us did her wrong. Right now, we get her back, and we both grovel for forgiveness."

I could feel the hurt in his voice.

We may not have known what was happening back when Roxie was in the pack, but we did cause most of the problems for her and the people around her, even if we were too blind and stupid to see it happening.

I know I have a way to go with Roxie in making it up to her, and I will.

"Now we get mate," said Blaze as I looked back at him. "No more pity party for you; become the alpha and mate she needs."

I nodded and looked back at Jason, who was still staring at me. I didn't say anything but glanced behind him to see Keith staring at us. Like the rest of Roxie's family, his face was holding so much. "We will kill everyone who steps foot in this pack," he said as he walked up and placed his hand on Jason's shoulder, giving him a slight squeeze. "If Roxie is there with him, we will free her." "What if she is not with him?" asked Tim. "Where will we search for my baby?"

I could hear the pain in his voice at the nickname he gave Roxie. He was defeated, but I knew he would do anything to get Roxie back.

"We will search everywhere," Keith said, pulling me back. "Roxie knows how to fight and will kill if she needs to. As for finding her, we will search his pack and everywhere he has been. He must have her somewhere."

I nodded. "Keith is right," I said. "We will do everything to get her back. But first, we must deal with what is in front of us. We need to kill Alpha Trevor or capture him to find out answers. I know I can't promise him to be alive as Blaze wants to use him as his next chew toy, but we will figure it all out when it comes."

All three nodded.

I glanced toward Sofia, who was staring ahead.

Jason looked at her and sighed. "She wants her back just as much as we do," he mutters. "She wants to talk after all this."

I stared at him, but his face was stern.

"Not the time or place," he said, shaking his head.

I nodded.

I knew it wasn't, but knowing Jason through the years as I have, he never talks about anything. He would let it rot more till it became a problem.

"They are here," says Sofia as I look up and look at where she was looking.

In the distance were loads of men and women standing on the outskirts of the forest. More rogues appear around, and many are behind them. It was hard to work out how many there were.

It was nerve-wracking as we didn't know how many would come and judging on the scene in front of me. This would be one attack that could break my pack in more ways. There had to be over a thousand rogues, more even.

Growls erupted around me from pack members as rogues appeared around the forest clearing.

I glanced around and noticed everyone was in position, but the worry and fear that came from them suffocated me. I couldn't help but listen to all the murmurs around us. "There are too many," muttered a few.

"We are not going to survive," someone else sneered.

I growled and turned to face everyone.

Everyone went quiet as I scanned the faces that stood before me.

"Listen up," I yelled. "I know there seems to be more of them than us, but we have trained every day for years to deal with these situations. We will come out on top of this stronger."

I glanced around, taking in everyone. People's faces hardened. "We will take these mutts down, and we will become the pack we are meant to be," I yelled. "We are not just fighting to save the pack; we are fighting for it and the people who are unable to. People that you may love, who will come out of this and find out that there will be a new era for our pack, but also the most feared. We will take everyone down."

People nodded, and fear was replaced with determination.

"The pack link is open if anyone needs help," I said. "Use it; we are all in this together."

The pack link opens, and everyone's emotions hit me like a tidal wave, hard and fast.

I cleared my mind as Blaze came forward. "We kill them," he says. "We kill them and get mate back."

I let Blaze come forward as we join as one.

I turned to look back at the rogues. There seemed to be more there from when I last looked. But as I scanned the faces till my eyes landed on the one person who started all of this. Alpha Trevor.

Alpha Trevor stepped out and was accompanied by his Beta.

I looked over to Jason, who was staring at them. I opened a mind link to him, and only him. "His Beta is with him. Can you tell if there are others from his pack?" I asked.

Jason didn't say anything for a few seconds and let a low growl out. "I can spot some, but not all the pack members are here," he snarls. "His Gamma is not here either. He must have kept them all back or something."

I growled as my eyes locked onto Alpha Trevor, who was smirking.

"I can't see Roxie," Jason says through the mind link. "Where the hell is she?"

I scanned the crowd, but Jason was right; there was no sign of Roxie.

"Naomi's not there either," muttered Keith, standing next to me.

I growled.

After what felt like hours, Alpha Trevor roared as his eyes bore back into mine.

"ATTACK," he yelled, and all rogues behind him started running toward us. There was a massive band of them; if I would have guessed, there were definitely more than a thousand of them.

I watched as human and wolf forms moved forward.

"NOW," Blaze and I shouted as I charged forward.

Pack members growl out, and all follow me right into the abyss.